Music in 1900
...ntion to the composition of each image, to the minute definition of details, to the choice of objects, to the lighting and the atmosphere, all in order to attain the desired degree of vagueness.’ One has a number of levels at which Calvino considers Leopardi: the image, the details, the objects. As well those factors which alter how they appear: the lighting and the atmosphere. It is the level of the image which seems to be most prevalent in how Calvino assesses his writing, the object is too large to be considered (and attains a kind of platonic idealism) whereas the details are only really viewed as part of the texture of the image. Then of course, there is the ‘composition of the image’ which tends to imply that from certain perspectives one may view an image as a collection of images (for what has enough presence to from part of an image if not more images?). hmmm. Maybe? I wanted to tell you of my fondness for geometrical forms, for symmetries, for numerical proportions; I wanted to explain the things I had written in terms of my fidelity to the idea of limits, of measure….. But perhaps it is precisely this i...